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Sept. v13, 1932. I G. LARsN PENCIL Filed Dec. l5. 1929 lli INVENTOR BMM I y GABREL LAR/SEN,

Patented Sept. 13, 1932 1 l stares Parr eine OF SPRINGFIELD, NEVI JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO L. E. WATERMAN COMPANY, OF NEW' YORK, NVY., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK PENCIL r Application filed December 13,v 1929. Serial No. 413,738.

My invention more particularly relates to a combined eraser and magazine for leads.

My invention consists of certain novel parts and combination of part-s particularly pointed out in the claims.V

The following is adescription of a pencil embodying my invention in the form at present preferred by me, but it will be understood that various modifications and changes may e' be made therein without departing from the spirit of my invention and without exceeding the scope of my claims.

My invention will best be understood by reference to the accompanying drawing, in

"- -which 1 have illustrated the preferred emlarly embodying my invention.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the drawing.

Referring now to the drawing, 10 is a pencil the pointed end of which is indicated at 11,

'and the upper end of which is provided on Y its interior with screw threads as at 12. The lower end of the lead for the pencil is indicated at 13.

I have not illustrated the operating mechanism for the pencil, as the same constitutes no part of my present invention.

A hollow member 14 is preferably screw threaded at one end both on its exterior, as at 15, and its interior, as at 16, the upper end of the member being preferably oi'setfrom the lower portion, as at 17, and adapted to receive an eraser 18. Preferably, the eraser is seated in a cupped metallic member 19, which .5 is preferably formed from a stamped metal sheet with projecting tongues which are bent upwardly, as at 20, and each provided with an inwardly extending projection 21 which retains the eraser in position. The cupped member 19 containing the eraser is received vin the offset portion 17 of the member 14, the

lower end of the cupped member engaging a shoulder 22 formed on the interior of the member 14 between the oifset portion and the `screw-threaded portion.

An open-ended magazine 23 for leads is preferably screw-threaded at its upper end, as at 24, the latter engaging the interior screw threads 16 on theV member 14.

l When the parts are assembled by insertingy the eraser 18 in the cupped metallic member 19,which is in turn inserted in the member 14, and the lead magazine 23 is inserted in the opposite end of the member 14, the member 14 is then inserted in thelupper end of the barrel of the pencil, the member being screwed into the pencil .barrel until an eX- terior shoulder 25Yformed between the screwthreaded portion and the offset portion of the member14 engages the top of the barrel 10a of the pencil. Y

A cap 26 isadapted frictionally to engage y the upper offset portion of the member 14 and form a kclosure for'the eraser and the endpof the pencil.

I claim:

1. In a pencil,a barrel adapted to carry a writing lead at its lower end, a member disposed at the upper end of the barrel, a magazine'for spare leads normally disposed within said barrel below said member, means for detachably securing said magazine to said member, means on vsaid member adapted to hold an eraser thereon so that it will extend beyond the end of the barrel, and means forI detachably securing the member, with associated magazine and eraser, to the barrel.

2. In` a pencil, a barrel adapted to carry a Writing lead at its lower end, a member disposed at the upper end of the barrel andextending upwardly beyond said upper end.l a j magazine for spare leadsnormally dispos-.ed

within said barrel below said member, means for detachably securing said magazineto said member, means onsaid member adapted to hold an eraser thereon 'so that it will eX- tend beyond the end of the barrel, means for detachably securing the member, with associated magazine and eraser, xto the barrel, and acap frictionally engaging saidmember beyond the end of the barrel and covering said eraser.

3. In a pencil, a barrel `adapted to carry awriting lead at its lower end, a member jdiste posed at the upper end of the barrel and having threaded engagement therewith, a magazine for spare leads normally disposed within said barrel below said member and threaded thereto, and means for detaohably securing said eraser to said member.

4:. In a pencil, a barrel adapted to carry a writing lead at its lower end, a member disposed at the upper end of the barrel and having threaded engagement therewith, a

magazine for spare leads normally disposed within said barrel below said member and threaded thereto, and means on said member adapted to hold an eraser thereon so that it will extend beyond the upper end of the barrel.

5. In a pencil, a barrel adapted to carry a writing lead at its lower end, a member disposed at the upper end of the barrel and having a tubular portion extending within the barrel andy into threaded engagement therewith, and a magazine forspare leads normally disposed within said barrel below said member and extending within the tubular portion of said member and in threaded engagement therewith.

6. In a pencil, a barrel adapted to carry a writing lead at its lower end, a member disposed at the upper end of the barrel and extending upwardly therefrom, said member having a portion extending within the barrel and in threadedv engagement therewith and also having a shoulder adapted to contact with the end of the barrel toV limit movement of the member into the barrel, and a cap in frictional engagement with the portion of the member beyond the end of the barrel and in contact with said end of the barrel.

7. In a pencil, a barrel adapted to carry a writing lead at its lower end, a tubular member threaded into the upper end of the barrel and having'v a portion extending upwardly beyond the end of the barrel, a magazine for spare leads normally disposed within said barrel below' said member and threaded within said member', and a shoulder within said member above said magazine and adapted to hold an eraser disposed in said member against downward movement.

8. In a pencil, a barrel adapted to carry a writing lead at its lower end, a tubular member threaded into the upper end of the barrel and having a, portion extending upwardly beyond the end of the barrel, a magazine for spare leads normally disposed within said barrel below said member and threaded within said member, a shoulder within said member above said magazine and adapted to hold an eraser disposed in said member against downward movement, and a shoulder on the outside of said tubular member adapted to engage the end of the barrel.

9. In a pencil, a barrel screw-threaded on p its interior and upper end, a hollow member provided at one end both on its exterior and GABRIEL LARSEN. 

